Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS
• FAMO GAY PEOPLE
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

GAY RIGHTS

" Beyond her LGBTQ activism, DeLarverie also anized and performed at fundraisers for women who suffered om domtic vlence and their Jam Baldw (Photo by Ted Thai)The LIFE Picture Collectn/GettyJam Baldw (1924-1987)A wrer and social cric, Baldw is perhaps bt known for his 1955 llectn of says, "Not of a Native Son, " and his groundbreakg 1956 novel, "Gvanni's Room, " which picts them of homosexualy and bisexualy.

FAMO GAY PEOPLE

Baldw spent a majory of his lerary and activist reer tg others about Black and queer inty, as he did durg his famo lecture tled “Race, Racism, and the Gay Communy” at a meetg of the New York chapter of Black and Whe Men Together (now known as Men of All Colors Together) and playwright Lorrae Hansberry her New York Cy apartment April Attie / Getty ImagLorrae Hansberry (1930-1965)Hansberry was an activist and playwright bt known for her groundbreakg play “A Rais the Sun, ” about a stgglg Black fay on Chigo’s South Si.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

The inic work was then ma to a 1961 film starrg Sidney Poier and Ruby to “A Rais the Sun” fame, Hansberry — who never publicly acknowledged she was a lbian — joed lbian rights group Dghters of Bilis and ntributed letters about femism and homophobia to s magaze, “The Ladr, ” acrdg to LGBTQ historian Eric Marc, host of the “Makg Gay History” podst.

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HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI

Peter ThielPeter ThielYou may not always agree wh his polics, but you nnot ignore Thiel’s volvement some of the most novative technology pany of the past few of Confy 1998, which started PayPal 1999, Thiel is often referred to as the “Don of the PayPal mafia”, a a group of former PayPal employe and founrs who have sce found and veloped addnal technology pani[1]such as Tla Motors, LkedIn, Palantir Technologi, SpaceX, YouTube, Yelp, and himself was also the first outsi vtor Facebook and provis lns of dollars to forward-lookg rearch technologi through the Thiel Foundatn and Thiel now openly gay and married to his long-time partner, Thiel was fur at beg outed a 2007 article by Gawker media.

Jon HallJon “maddog” HallJon “Maddog” Hall is the Board Chair of Lux ternatnal, the open source movement promotg the eely available Lux operatg is an advote for g open source software and hardware available for any entreprenr, no matter what their background June 2012, honor of Alan Turg, Hall published an article  Lux Magaze announcg that he is gay. I n thk of nobody history who n boast a portfol as varied as Da Vci kept his love-life private, is wily believed that he was homosexual, based on acunts om those who knew him at the time, as well as urt documents where was revealed he had been volved a sexual enunter wh several men. In 1958, Ms Gtgs started the New York chapter of the Dghters of Bilis (DOB), the first lbian civil rights anisatn the Uned Stat origally found San Tob Lahen, 82, an early photographer of the gay rights movement holdg a portra of her late partner Barbara Gtgs, Cred: APShe eded the first US lbian magaze, The Ladr om 1963 to 1966, g as a rallyg cry for equaly.

But was not jt her skills on the urt that changed the woman's game and tennis, her urage to live her life on her own terms ma her a champn away om was the first openly gay athlete, g out 1981 to a world where stutnal homophobia, pecially the rarefied rridors of tennis, was the norm. One of the foremost wrers on the 20th century, his plays, novels and says, cludg Not of a Native Son, explore race and sexualy segregated and homophobic beme active the civil rights stggle on his return to the US 1957 after several years Paris.